Laxness

noun

noun ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The property of being lax, lacking strictness. countable, uncountable

    "There was a certain laxness in safety preparations that made the fire worse."

  2. 2
    the quality of being lax and neglectful wordnet
  3. 3
    the condition of being physiologically lax wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
laxityabandonabandonmentacceptancebackwardnessbagginess

Example

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"A strong veteran, having trained for tens of years, can fall to a weakling in a moment of laxness. That's what the martial arts world is."

Etymology

From lax + -ness.

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